Royal Scot by Airfix -- was it reissued by anyone else?

"Laurie" wrote

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Not for the ready-to-run stuff I'm afraid.

John.

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John Turner
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I had been under the impression that the early releases were just detailed reworkings of their kit mouldings. However some more googleing shows that you are correct, they produced new tooling. I stand corrected.

I wonder what happened to all the Kitmaster tooling that Airfix (and Dapol) never re-released ?

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Laurie

Laurie wrote:-

If you think about it that's impossible. The Kitmaster/Airfix kits were full of separate components whereas the RTR bodies were produced virtually in one piece. That requires a completely different mould.

(kim)

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kim

Yes, it's obvious when you think about it properly. Doh :-)

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Laurie

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David Costigan

"David Costigan" wrote Airfix bought most of what was usable; unfortunately many of the Kitmaster moulds were either life-expired or too badly damaged to re-use - hence the demise of the kits

Were the rest (that are not in production today under Dapol) not lost in a fire pre Llangollen days of Dapol? Chester way?

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Andy Sollis- Churnet Valley model Railway Dept.

How did the moulds get damaged or worn so badly? Surely Kitmaster didn't stay in production long enough for the moulds to get so worn and surely the most popular models would have been those like the Pug and other British locos, not the Italian Tank, BR23 and SNCF 4-8-2?

Were some perhaps milled from aluminium to save costs, or were they roughly handled by the receivers agents???

Regards, Greg.P.

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Gregory Procter

Were not the Kitmaster moulds not damaged in a fire? I have this vague recollection of reading about it somewhere, or was that another companies moulds?

-- Cheers Roger T.

Home of the Great Eastern Railway

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Roger T.

I have a similar recollection regarding the moulds, under Dapol control, but that was a long time later.

If only ... those European models had been to HO scale!!!

Regards, Greg.P.

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Gregory Procter

"Roger T." wrote

Can't remember the actual circumstances, but I think loss &/or damage occurred at they time they went into liquidation. It's all explained in the book on the history of the company - but don't ask me its name.

John.

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John Turner

Would that be "Let's Stick Together An appreciation of Kitmaster and Airfix Railway Kits" by Stephen Knight Irwell Press ISBN 1-871608-90-2 or is there another book about Airfix?

Quoting one interesting section: "However, during a period around the transition from Kitmaster to Airfix, the tools were put into storage in a warehouse near Peterborough with a leaking roof. Water coming through holes was channelled into tarpaulins covering only some of the tools and thus found its way into others, causing the case hardened steel to oxidise and therby producing tiny pits in the surface of the tools. ...... The rust damage to the worst affected tools was thought to be irreversible and a decision was taken to scrap these tools straight away."

Hope this clarifies things a little.

Alan

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Alan P Dawes

"Alan P Dawes" wrote

Yup, that's the one I had in mind.

Certainly did, thanks Alan. Can't blame Dapol for once.

John.

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John Turner

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David Costigan

That advice doesn't work with 4-4-0, 0-4-4, 2-4-0, 0-4-2, 2-2-2, 4-2-2.

Bogies and p>

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Dick Ganderton

That's true. You probably need the bogies and trucks to carry some weight on these wheel arrangements.

In the above, probably, but in other models, I don't think so.

They may serve that function in the real thing, but in models, they're there the for the looks.

-- Cheers Roger T.

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